The nicotine in e-liquids for e-cigarettes has encouraged many smokers to take up vaping, but still causes concern as reflected in numerous regulations and policies. Studied for decades, this alkaloid continues to drive political and scientific debate.
Tag: Nicotine
Benzaldehyde: Another molecule in the flavors war?
The American researcher Maciej L. Goniewicz of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, N.Y.) and his Polish colleagues from the department of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Medical University...
E-cigarette: A state-of-the-art for caregivers and health professionals
In a word of controversies around the e-cigarette, what do we know for sure?
When browsing through scientific publications, one realizes that most of them only address a very...
Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015: Signed
The Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015 has been signed by the US President Obama on January 28, 2016.
The Child Packaging Requirements of the...
Study: Tank-type atomizers more efficient than cartomizers
Beside this finding, the authors also aimed at establishing a robust protocol to evaluate the consistency in nicotine delivery to the aerosol of different types of...
Vapor differs in composition from e-liquid
The Swiss team of the Prof. R. Zenobi from the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, established protocols to investigate...
Insights in expert vaping patterns, a compensation mechanism for nicotine
Experimenters, users, expert users... where are the differences?
For most experimenters the first contact with vaping is by trying a model of the first generation and advertised...
Belgium: Minister of Health urged to take action against smoking
"If the law allows young people to have sex at 16, why prohibiting cigarettes? At 16, they are adult." -M. De BlockThe opposition is...
US regulation: Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015
The Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015 bill has passed different steps for approbation, from the House to the Senate, before ending on President Obama's desk for signature,...